Arisu

Yes, the other day I found one under a rock in Terminus Cave.

Hello! I got Pokemon X the other day and I'd love to make some friends! 3609-1445-0065 is my Friend Code, please add me?★ Some people already added their codes in this thread, do you mind if I go ahead and befriend you? :3 I haven't made it through the story yet, taking my sweet time... but I love breeding Pokemon and trading them, so looking forward to settle down and do that once I beat the Elite Four~ My favourite type used to be Grass, but now it's Fairy. I don't like battling others, but if I do, Garchomp is my trump card. If the offence is the best defence tactic fail, I'm toast. My favourite pokemon is... Sylveon. My ultimate goal is breeding a perfect IV, modest one. Other faves include Whimsicott, Joltik, all the other Eeveelutions and all the cute fox pokemon! What's your favourite/s? :3

Oh. I'm incredibly conservative with voice overs in jRPGs. If I could choose (which I can't, thankfully, for most of you) I'd see them gone altogether. I think it's because of my relationship with games at an early age. I grew up a console gamer, roughly at the start of the 16-bit era, when it was absolutely unthinkable to have voice acting in video games because of technical limitations. The only thing you might hear would be some digitalized voice yelling SEGA or Let's kick shell! at the start of a game/stage. Instead I used my imagination, or simply let the beautiful music "speak" the mood, and I loved it. When the era or "silent games" came to an end, I had a very hard time to adapt. I missed this. I wanted this. Not thi---oh, wait, someone posted the Tidus "laughs"(?) video already. WHY AM I TELLING YOU THIS?? ...I guess I just didn't want to say "screw VOs, I hate 'em coz I just do!". And I don't hate them, really, I'm just a silly relic of a long gone era of gaming. Someday I'll just have to accept the winds of change... So let's talk about Final Fantasy XIV. I admit that, as a teen, I was completely biased. Japanese voice acting was always better than its Western counterpart. Because it just was. 16 year old fangirl logic! Thankfully I grew up. While I keep the voice acting turned OFF most of the time, I have listened to both the English and Japanese voices, and in my humble opinion they are very...hmm, generic. I think the Japanese ones sounds just like anime #129637, which isn't necessarily a bad thing for some, and the English performance has this "eeeh, not awesome, but not too bad, just glad it's not more of it" feel. However, because of the game's Western Fantasy-esque setting, and as a non-English speaker, I am somewhat fascinated by the use of the language in Final Fantasy XIV. I prefer the English VOs for this reason. It just fits the mood better for me. I also think Tobias makes an interesting point. While I can understand English far better than Japanese (although I do have a firm grasp of the basics), they're both foreign languages. I thought the English voice acting in Resident Evil (the original from '96) sounded sooo cool. I was 11 years old, and I hardly understood a word they were saying. But it was English! English! It's gotta be kick-ass! Considering the notorious voice acting in that game (if you haven't heard it, look it up on YouTube, but be warned, it's bad, so bad) it may be a poor example, but it's possible that you get to be more picky with your VOs the more you're familiar the language spoken, it makes it easier to judge what actually sounds realistic, overacted, bored, and so on. Such is what happened to me with both English and Japanese.

That outfit is so pretty! The colours are adorable, she looks like a carrot! ...that's, that's really a compliment, y'see, I love carrots! <3

Hello! Thanks, and nice to meet you! I submitted an application to the Eorzean Union a few days ago, so I hope I'll be able to get an official invite soon! I was not aware of the Linkshell, but I will look into it, thanks for the information! [align=center][/align]

Hello, Teardrop! Nice to meet you! Perhaps we have bumped into each other in other MMOs! I'm a bit of a loner, but if you ever saw a character named Joachim, that was most likely me running around! Regardless, I do hope we meet up in Final Fantasy XIV: ARR someday! Please don't be shy to say hi if you see me around on Nei! Also, I'm glad you feel my English is alright. Thank you! Hello, Sakurai! Nice to meet you as well! Gosh, I swear I was rambling pretty bad last night. A 2:30 AM ramble no less! I even forgot to mention I used to play Final Fantasy XIV a lot during 1.0, so I'm not actually all that new to Balmung...I'll take this opportunity to welcome you to the server, though! I'll be on the look out for you, and hope we'll see each other in the game!

Hello there, thanks for dropping by! With the re-launch of Final Fantasy XIV and influx of new and old players alike, I'm excited to introduce myself to the community! Ahem... I'll try to tell you a little about myself and just write what comes naturally! My name is Alice, but I'm known as Yoa or Kotori online! I'm 28 years old, Swedish, so please excuse my violation of the English language, I try very hard to improve as best as can! Let's see...I'm a huge video game geek (retro games from the 90's especially), and I love animals, I have an African house snake living with me, his name's Niarte after my best friend's RP character, huhuhu...he's my little jewel! I'm also a volunteer worker for the Red Cross. I've played most big MMO titles, like Ragnarok Online, Final Fantasy XI, World of Warcraft, Aion, TERA, and Guild Wars 2, to mention a few! That's about it! I love role-playing, weaving stories and intrigue, using your imagination to its fullest, few things are as fun! My head's boiling with ideas for Final Fantasy XIV: ARR! Only problem... I'm so shy, and I have some confidence issues (like my English not being good enough...). My MMO RP experience is limited at best, and for almost 10 years I've had my best friend there to support and encourage me, we've always been of very similar ideas (crazy fangirls we are), but we've drifted apart, while still close friends, she's moved on to other things in life, as happens. I've been engaged in safe and secure 1-on-1 RP for so long that I instantly clamp up around new people, even though I so desperately wish to take part and broaden my role-playing horizons... It's hard to teach an old dog new tricks... Gosh, I'm rambling...! Always happens when I'm nervous and wants to get my point across... I guess what I'm trying to say is... I'm really hoping to meet people to craft stories together with! I'll do my best to overcome my short-comings, so please give me a chance! Also, I like miqo'te... so my main character is a Moon Keeper boy called Nei Lihzeh. He's blind, but I like to have him wear spectacles (OOCly) because it's cute...herpy derp! ≧ ▽≦）